The twentieth-century American fiction handbook /
Christopher MacGowan.
- Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- xvii, 390 p. ; 23 cm.
- Blackwell literature handbooks .
- Blackwell literature handbooks. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-377) and index.
Historical Contexts -- The American Scene, c.1900 -- Expatriates: 1920s and Beyond -- Charting the Depression: The 1930s -- Post-war Alienation, Experiment, and Alternatives -- Multicultural America: Borders, Tradition, and Identity -- Major Writers -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) -- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) -- John Dos Passos (1896-1970) -- William Faulkner (1897-1962) -- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) -- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) -- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) -- Nathanael West (1903-1940) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) -- Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 pt. 2 Norman Mailer (1923-2007) -- James Baldwin (1924-1987) -- John Barth (b. 1930) -- Toni Morrison (b. 1931) -- John Updike (1932-2009) -- Philip Roth (b. 1933) -- Don DeLillo (b. 1936) -- Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) -- Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) -- Raymond Carver (1938-1988) -- Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) -- Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) -- Key Texts -- Sister Carrie (1900) / The Wings of the Dove (1902) / The House of Mirth (1905) / My Antonia (1918) / Winesburg, Ohio (1919) / Babbitt (1922) / The Great Gatsby (1925) / In Our Time (1925) / The Sound and the Fury (1929) / Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) / Nightwood (1937) / The Grapes of Wrath (1939) / Native Son (1940) / Theodore Dreiser -- Henry James -- Edith Wharton -- Willa Cather -- Sherwood Anderson -- Sinclair Lewis -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Ernest Hemingway -- William Faulkner -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Djuna Barnes -- John Steinbeck -- Richard Wright pt. 3 The Catcher in the Rye (1951) / Wise Blood (1952) / Invisible Man (1952) / On the Road (1957) / Lolita (1958) / Catch-22 (1961) / Naked Lunch (1962) / Herzog (1964) / The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) / Portnoy's Complaint (1969) / Ceremony (1977) / The Color Purple (1982) / The House on Mango Street (1984) / Neuromancer (1984) / White Noise (1985) / Beloved (1987) / The Joy Luck Club (1989) / All the Pretty Horses (1992) / Themes -- Race and American Fiction -- The American Short Story -- Hollywood and American Fiction -- Women and Twentieth-Century American Fiction. J. D. Salinger -- Flannery O'Connor -- Ralph Ellison -- Jack Kerouac -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Joseph Heller -- William S. Burroughs -- Saul Bellow -- Thomas Pynchon -- Philip Roth -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Alice Walker -- Sandra Cisneros -- William Gibson -- Don DeLillo -- Toni Morrison -- Amy Tan -- Cormac McCarthy -- pt. 4
This student-friendly handbook provides an overview of American fiction over the 20th century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers.
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